People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

You look for one thing and you find another.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.